Gender discrimination is seen everywhere from work to family life. Gender discrimination starting in the family
shows it self with parents’ attitudes related to gender which is shaped according to the prejudices expected in the
society. Parents who find out the gender of their babies make preparations accordingly, for example, they prefer to
purchase pink clothes for girls and blue ones for boys. This approach manifests itself in many instances from choice
of toys to clothes. This prejudice towards gender reflects to behaviors of parents, for example, it is seen that girls
are treated delicately while boys are treated loutishly. “Due to families’ different behaviors towards their male and
female children and their labeling as girls and boys , within the first 18 months of their lives, children begin to learn
the differences between the two genders by themselves. Thereby, between 18th and 20th months, the basis of sexual
identity or in other words gender identity (individuals begin to believe that they are female or male and feel their femininity or masculinity, meaning, it is the inner expression of the individuals’ sexual identity) begins to be
constructed (Ersoy, 2009 :189).
Gender discrimination is seen everywhere from work to family life. Gender discrimination starting in the familyshows it self with parents’ attitudes related to gender which is shaped according to the prejudices expected in thesociety. Parents who find out the gender of their babies make preparations accordingly, for example, they prefer topurchase pink clothes for girls and blue ones for boys. This approach manifests itself in many instances from choiceof toys to clothes. This prejudice towards gender reflects to behaviors of parents, for example, it is seen that girlsare treated delicately while boys are treated loutishly. “Due to families’ different behaviors towards their male andfemale children and their labeling as girls and boys , within the first 18 months of their lives, children begin to learnthe differences between the two genders by themselves. Thereby, between 18th and 20th months, the basis of sexualidentity or in other words gender identity (individuals begin to believe that they are female or male and feel their femininity or masculinity, meaning, it is the inner expression of the individuals’ sexual identity) begins to beconstructed (Ersoy, 2009 :189).
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